Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of figures
Prologue
Introduction

Deep HiStories: Gender and Colonialism in Southern Africa
WENDY WOODWARD, PATRICIA HAYES AND GARY MINKLEY

Genealogies of voice

State Racism and the Education of Desires:

A Colonial Reading of Foucault
ANN LAURA STOLER

Domesticity and Dispossession: The Ideologies of Domesticity and ‘Home’ and the British Construction of the Primitive from the Eighteenth to the Early Nineteenth Centuries
ELIZABETH ELBOURNE

Contradictory Tongues: Torture and Testimony of Two Slave Women in the Eastern Cape Courts in 1934
WENDY WOODWARD

Women's Talk and the Colonial State: The Case of Sir John Wylde, 1931-1933
KIRSTEN MACKENZIE

Science and the Spectacle: /Khanako's South Africa, 1936-1937
CIRAJ RASSOOL AND PATRICIA HAYES

Steeped histories

‘Moedermeesteres’: Dutch-Afrikaans Women’s Entry into the Public Sphere in the Cape Colony 1860-1896
MARIJKE Du TOIT

‘We respected them for their colour’: Male Nursing on the Mines in Twentieth-Century South Africa
SHULA MARKS

Faithful Daughter, Murdering Mother: Transgression and Social Control in Colonial Namibia
MEREDITH MCKITTRICK WITH FANUEL SHINGENGE

Gender and Fertility in a Postcolonial Moment: The Prohibition of Depo-Provera in Zimbabwe 1981
AMY KALER

Sounding lines

Self-Representation and the Reconstruction of Southern African Pasts: Bessie Head’s A Bewitched Crossroad
DESIRÉE LEWIS

Gender-Blending and Code-Switching in the South African Novel: A Postcolonial Model
JOHAN JACOBS

Targeted for Change: Cameroonian Women and Missionary Designs in Some Fiction of Mongo Beti
ELIAS BONGMBA

Colonizing the Queer: Some Problems in Curating South Africa's First National Gay and Lesbian Art Exhibition
JOAN BELLIS
Notes on contributors

Reviews

"…well researched and interesting to read, giving a good introduction to some of the debates… This book would be of importance in gender and colonial studies, while being accessible for the more general reader. It is a useful addition to the body of research." – Crystal Warren, in: NELM News (National English Literary Museum), No. 42 (Dec. 2004), p. 7

"…an excellent publication." – in: Research in African Literatures, Vol. 34, nr. 3 (Fall 2003), pp.199-200